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Winning images to be shown at Somerset House, London 24 April – 10 May Inaugural Mobile Phone Award winner chosen by the public with a staggering 6,718 votes Images available at press.worldphoto.org or Image.net TUESDAY 31st MARCH: The Open and Youth winners along with the inaugural Mobile Phone winner of the world’s biggest photography competition, […]

People talk about wearing technology as if it’s a new thing. We should be clear, it isn’t. For centuries people have found ways to incorporate technology into what they wear, just look at the first watches – they came about when technology advanced to the point where it became possible to take something incredibly useful […]

Barcelona, 2nd March 2015 – Sony Mobile Communications (“Sony Mobile”) today announced the world’s lightest and slimmest 10” tablet2 – Xperia™ Z4 Tablet. Delivering a best in class entertainment experience thanks to the world’s brightest 10.1 inch 2K display of the leading tablets1 and long battery life (up to 17 hours of video playback), the […]

Apps

Seen as wearable tech is the talk of the town at the minute we thought we’d take the opportunity to focus this edition of App of the Month on one that sits on your wrist – My Tracks Part of the Google Android apps ecosystem, My Tracks is one step ahead (pun intended) of other […]

One of the new technologies that caught the eye on the Sony booth at #MWC15 this week was our electronics teams’ latest 65”Class 4K Ultra HD BRAVIA® TV. It wasn’t just the amazingly clear picture on display, or the impossibly thin screen that turned a few heads, it was also the new Android TV™ operating […]

Back in January we introduced you to Folding@Home, a protein folding simulation programme set up by Dr Vijay Pande and his team at Stanford University. Initially launching in a beta version exclusively on select Xperia devices, Folding@Home set out to crowdsource processing power from people’s smartphones. The aim was to use lots (and we mean […]

Photos

Back in January the WPO announced that it was launching a brand new category for its 2015 Sony World Photography Awards, a category that we at Sony Mobile were quite excited about – a dedicated award for photography shot on a mobile phone. Well, after just four weeks and more than 10,200 entries a judging […]

You may remember back in August we sent award-winning WPO photographer Myriam Meloni to capture some of the scenes at Spain’s renowned food festival, La Tomatina. Well, seeing as we’re at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Myriam’s adopted hometown since she moved from Italy, we thought we’d catch up with her again to see how she’s […]

After a few weeks respite, it’s time for another Xperia Photo Academy tutorial, this time ‘focusing’ (excuse the pun) on our native Xperia app, Background Defocus. Our first three tutorials were held by internationally renowned photographers J.N. Silva, Ben Thomas and Greg Funnell who each shared their expertise in low light, perspective and contrast photography. […]

Wearable tech

Ever since we launched the first of our new smart wearable devices (SmartBand SWR10) back in 2014 we’ve been using data to help us understand how people are using them. The data gives us fantastic insight into the features our customers like to use and what they might want to see brought into new / […]

Over the last few months our SmartEyeglass prototype has been one of the most talked about smart eyewear concepts – today the project takes a major step forward, as we announce both commercialisation and launch from March 2015. The SmartEyeglass Developer Edition SED-E1 will give developers access to both the physical sample and official supporting […]

After a fevered first unveiling at CES last month, our new look stainless steel edition of SmartWatch 3 launches across the globe from this week. We designed SmartWatch 3 stainless steel with a sleek look and feel, paying homage to contemporary timepiece styling. It’s the latest edition of our popular wearable, specifically designed for Android […]

UPDATE: First scripts for Android 5.0; Lollipop are now rolling from today for Xperia Z2, Z2 Tablet & Z3 Tablet Compact We’re starting our Android 5.0, Lollipop upgrade from today for Xperia Z3 and Xperia Z3 Compact. You’ll see the upgrade hit first devices in the Nordics and Baltics, continuing to further markets, for more Xperia […]

For us, SmartWear is all about expression… all our wearable technology is developed using modular hardware, which means that you can wear it the way you want, whatever your personality, style, taste, mood… With the latest Android Wear update rolling today – for all our SmartWatch 3 users, this guiding principle is taking on a new […]

Games, Music & Movies

Rewind back to the end of 2014 you may remember joining us as we celebrated the 20th birthday of our renowned PlayStation console – a lucky few of you may even have managed to get your hands on one of the limited retro edition original grey consoles that we released to mark the occasion. Each […]

The “wisdom of crowds” says that the many are smarter than the few – but can they be better at gaming too? That’s what our French team set out to discover when they built a crowd (and cloud)-controlled robot that will play LittleBigPlanetTM 3 remotely… in every sense of the word. To celebrate the launch of […]

You may remember back in July we brought you news of an exciting integration between SmartWatch 2 and the game “Aces of Luftwaffe”. In one of the first real examples of wearable tech’s active integration with a mobile gaming experience, Aces of Luftwaffe allowed you to control a plane with the SmartWatch on your wrist. […]

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Ever since its foundation in 1946, Sony has continued to be a driver of innovation, technological development and design in the electronics market. Today we’re pleased to announce that these efforts have, once again, been acknowledged by the Red Dot Awards for product design. We’ve received recognition for 15 products including two prestigious Red Dot: […]

Another busy week for us on the Sony Mobile team has been and gone, and as usual we wanted to update you on what we’ve been up to. Earlier this week we announced another exciting, if not slightly messy partnership with Tough Mudder. The collaboration sits Sony as the official device sponsor throughout the 2015 […]

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Pretty much everything in biology comes down to proteins. They’re the building blocks for our bones, skin and blood vessels, the antibodies that keep us safe from disease and the signals that let us sense what’s around us. These tiny necklaces of amino acids can end up doing almost anything, and they achieve this mind-blowing […]

You may remember back in August we sent award-winning WPO photographer Myriam Meloni to capture some of the scenes at Spain’s renowned food festival, La Tomatina. Well, seeing as we’re at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Myriam’s adopted hometown since she moved from Italy, we thought we’d catch up with her again to see how she’s […]

Ever since we launched the first of our new smart wearable devices (SmartBand SWR10) back in 2014 we’ve been using data to help us understand how people are using them. The data gives us fantastic insight into the features our customers like to use and what they might want to see brought into new / […]

8th July 2014, London, UK – Sony Mobile Communications (“Sony Mobile”) today introduces Xperia™ C3, the ultimate new smartphone for selfies and social sharing thanks to Sony’s leading digital imaging technology and interactive camera apps. “Xperia C3 is a unique new smartphone from Sony, created to offer the ultimate social sharing experience with a new […]

Ever since we launched the first of our new smart wearable devices (SmartBand SWR10) back in 2014 we’ve been using data to help us understand how people are using them. The data gives us fantastic insight into the features our customers like to use and what they might want to see brought into new / […]

Seen as wearable tech is the talk of the town at the minute we thought we’d take the opportunity to focus this edition of App of the Month on one that sits on your wrist – My Tracks Part of the Google Android apps ecosystem, My Tracks is one step ahead (pun intended) of other […]

Back in January the WPO announced that it was launching a brand new category for its 2015 Sony World Photography Awards, a category that we at Sony Mobile were quite excited about – a dedicated award for photography shot on a mobile phone. Well, after just four weeks and more than 10,200 entries a judging […]

Rewind back to the end of 2014 you may remember joining us as we celebrated the 20th birthday of our renowned PlayStation console – a lucky few of you may even have managed to get your hands on one of the limited retro edition original grey consoles that we released to mark the occasion. Each […]

Back in January we introduced you to Folding@Home, a protein folding simulation programme set up by Dr Vijay Pande and his team at Stanford University. Initially launching in a beta version exclusively on select Xperia devices, Folding@Home set out to crowdsource processing power from people’s smartphones. The aim was to use lots (and we mean […]